Concrete fence-post.



`UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CONCRETE FENCE-POST.

Speccation of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 7, 1905.

Application filed July l5, 1905. Serial No. 269,792.

T0 {1r/ZZ whom it may concern:

and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to provide a concrete and steel fence-post-of small cost and high eiiicienc'y and durability; and to this end it consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claim.

The improved fence-post is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views. I

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation, showing the improved post set into the ground. Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken through the post on the line a? m2 of Fig. l, and Fig. 3 is a hori- Zontal section taken through the post on the line x3 :r3 of Fig. 2.

The numeral l indicates the concrete body of the post, which is preferably slightly tapered from the bottom to the top.

ed angular portions of the loops 3 project beyond the side of the post and afford a vertical series of eyes 3a, through which the line-wires of the wire fence are passed.

The metallic parts of the post are of course embedded in the concrete body of the post while the concrete is in plastic condition. This may be best accomplished by providing a mold-box having in its bottom a plurality of depressions or seats adapted to receive the eye-forming portions 3, while the plastic concrete is molded about the rod 2 and main portions of the wire 3.

This improved post can be manufactured at a comparatively small cost and, as is obvious, will last for a very great length of time. The metallic bars, and especially the core 2, reinforce and greatly strengthen the concrete body, so that the body of the post may be made much smaller in cross-section than will otherwise be practicable.

A concrete post cannot of course rot ordecay, but, as a matter of fact, becomes harder in in the course of time under the action of water.

WV hat I claim, and desire to 'secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

The combination with a concrete body l of a fence-post, of a metallic rod or core 2 embedded within and extending longitudinally of said post, and the wire 3 bent to form a succession of loops, coiled about said rod at intervals, with each loop projecting from one face of the concrete body to form a series of eyes 3a, saidv rods, loops and eyes lying in the same vertical plane, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix'my signature 1n presence of two witnesses.

. CASPER SPIESS.

Witnesses:

J. W. TRUWE, Louis LIPKE. 

